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Versus' bassist Fontaine Toups leads Containe.
The sound of I Want It All (Enchante`, 1994) is
a little too sparse (Tired Eyes) and melancholic (You Don't Owe Me),
although that matches the confessional lyrics of Toups and Connie Lovatt.
Mean Song is the only track with some life in it, and from that track
Only Cowards Walk Like Cowards (Enchante`, 1997) picks up.
The leaders still indulge in honestly painful private stories with the flair of
Olympia's girl-groups
(Lois, Sleater-Kinney, etc),
but a raunchier sound propels
Shy Song, Why Why Why and Sad Sad Luck.

The Ep Shangri-La (Merge, 2000) contains four songs: three of them are
covers of songs called Shangri-La or of bands named Shangri-La, and the
fourth one is the title-track, an original power-pop gem.

The melodic brand of noise-rock on
Hurrah (Merge, 2000)
is mildly entertaining
(Eskimo, My Adidas, Shangri-La), but too often sounds like Cheap Tricked to Sonic Youth.
The real gems on this album are the skewed ones, either because they are
arranged like the Beach Boys after an overdose
(the harmonium-based The Spell You're Under, the
piano-based Walkabout)
or because they sound like the overdose itself
(Mermaid Legs).
No question every Versus album is different from previous ones, but after
swinging right and left they may be approaching their lyrical and technical
maturity.

When Richard Baluyut moved to San Francisco, younger brother and
Versus guitarist James Baluyut launched his own project, +/- (Plus Minus).
Self Titled Long Playing Debut Album (Teen Beat, 2002)
offers lazy, dreamy melodies a` la
My Bloody Valentine
for the post-rock and digital-glitch generation, with occasional bursts of
neurotic energy such as The Queen Of Detroit.
The EP Holding Patterns (Teenbeat, 2003) is ever more lo-fi, but also
features the catchy Trapped Under The Ice Floes.
+/-'s second album, You Are Here (Teenbeat, 2003),
offered another dose of neurotic post-rock from James Balayut and his new
cohorts.

Let's Build A Fire (Absolutely Kosher, 2007), the third album by
+/-, failed to introduce any new element, painting the band in a time warp
of poppy post-rock, but at the same time highlighted the personal and intimate
dimensions of Balayut's art.

Plus Minus'
Xs On Your Eyes (Absolutely Kosher, 2008)

After a long long hiatus, Richard Balayut reunited Versus for the diligent
but largely uneventful
On The Ones And Threes (Merge, 2010).